Amy Pleasant received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1994) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University (1999). She has shown extensively across the country including whitespace gallery, Atlanta, GA, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, TOPS Gallery, Memphis, TN, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, Geary Contemporary, Millerton/NYC, Institute 193, Lexington, KY, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson/NYC, Atlanta Contemporary, GA, among others. Pleasant has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award, and the South Arts Prize for Alabama. Her work can be found in the collections of the Coca-Cola Fine Art Collection, Birmingham Museum of Art, Hunter Museum of American Art, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, Knoxville Museum of Art, U.S. Embassy, Dubai, The Columbus Museum of Art, The Progressive Art Corporation, and The Cleveland Clinic, among others.